HST 193 Final Exam Review December 2023 PDF

**HST 193 Final Exam Review** Wednesday, December 11^th^ 120 minutes to complete on Eagle Between 9 am and 9 pm Use a Chrome Browser **Part I: Multiple Choice (50%)** The information included in the multiple-choice questions will come from the terms that have been in the class modules: in the...

**HST 193 Final Exam Review** Wednesday, December 11^th^ 120 minutes to complete on Eagle Between 9 am and 9 pm Use a Chrome Browser **Part I: Multiple Choice (50%)** The information included in the multiple-choice questions will come from the terms that have been in the class modules: in the power points, PDFs, and videos. They include, but are not limited to, the list below. For each question, there will be only one correct answer. **-**The format of the questions may be straight forward, -Or the format of the question may be: all of the following took place EXCEPT, or which of the following is FALSE? **Part II: Short Answer (50%)** There will be 8 terms on your exam. You must answer 5 of them. For the list of potential short answer terms, look to the items **in bold** in the list below. In your answers, provide the following (2 points each per short answer): 1. **When**: a general time period: roughly the decade or part of the century when something happened. List an event that occurred right before/after for 1 point. 2. **Where**: the country/area where the event took place. 3. **Who**: the actors involved in the event (people and/or countries). If the term is a person, explain who that person was. 4. **What:** what is it, what did the person do: list two facts/details about the term. 5. **Why:** why did this happen AND why is this important? Example for a short answer: **Russo-Japanese War** Who---Russian and Japan Where---Korea and Manchuria When---1904-1905 What---A war in which Japan launched a sneak attacked against Russian possessions in Northern China (Manchuria), including Port Arthur. The Japanese won every battle of the war, including the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet at Tsushima Strait. Why---The Japanese attacked in order to prevent the Russians from taking Korea. This is important because it showed the world that Japan had become an industrialized world power. Meanwhile, a revolution broke out in Russia due to their embarrassing defeat. **Term List per Lecture** **Suggested Readings from the 8^th^ edition of *A History of World Societies*** -For the most part, each lecture will get equal coverage on the exam. You should be familiar with the following terms and concepts. For the potential short answer questions, study the **bold** terms. [The Formation of the Soviet State---Chapters 29 and 30] **Totalitarianism** Joseph Stalin Stalin's background Stalin's rise to power Leon Trotskii Rapid Industrialization Five Year Plans **The Terror** Collective Farms The Great Purges GULAGs [Fascism in Italy and Germany and the Holocaust---Chapters 29 and 30 ] **Totalitarianism** Fascism Benito Mussolini---Fascists The March on Rome Adolf Hitler---Nazis (NSDAP) Treaty of Versailles Weimar Republic Stab in the Back Myth Beer Hall Putsch Hitler's Rise to Power **Appeasemen**t Hitler-Stalin Pact *Mein Kampf* Early German anti-Semitism: early laws, the Nuremburg Laws, Kristallnacht [Inter-War Asia---Chapter 28 ] Indian National Congress Party **Mohandas Gandhi** Non-Violent Resistance Muhammad Ali Jinnah Partition of India Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang (Nationalists) Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Civil War The Long March **Guerilla Communism** [World War II---Chapter 30] Mobilization of American Industry Civilians on the Home Front: rationing, involvement in the war effort, etc. Japanese Internment Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor The Battle of Britain Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the USSR) D-Day Invasion of Normandy Battle of Midway **The Bushido Code** Kamikaze The Battle of Okinawa **The Manhattan Project** The Potsdam Declaration Hiroshima and Nagasaki [The Cold War and the USSR---Chapters 31-33] Reasons for the Cold War Yalta Conference Iron Curtain George Kennan's Long Telegram **Truman Doctrine** Domino Theory Marshall Plan **Berlin Airlift** NATO and Warsaw Pact Dean Acheson NSC-68 Communist victory in China The Korean War Sputnik and the Space Race The Military Industrial Complex The role of the CIA in the Cold War Nikita Khrushchev **The Secret Speech** Soviet invasion of Hungary Berlin Wall **Cuban Missile Crisis** Leonid Brezhnev Nuclear Parity and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) The Vietnam War The Vietcong and Ho Chi Minh Gulf of Tonkin Resolution **Tet Offensive** Détente Paris Peace Accords and the end of the Vietnam War The War in Afghanistan Ronald Reagan and the Cold War The USSR by the 1980s **Mikhail Gorbachev** Perestroika and Glasnost The Collapse of Communism The European Union Russia since 1991 Vladimir Putin [Decolonization---Chapter 32] **Decolonization** **Neo-Colonialism** Independence in Settler Colonies Apartheid in South Africa African National Congress (ANC) Legacies of Imperialism---poor economies, ethnic violence Cold War Proxy Wars---Angola, Ethiopia [China since 1949---Chapter 32] Reasons for Mao's Victory Mao Tse-Tung Early Communist Rule 100 Flowers Speech **The Great Leap Forward** The Sino-Soviet Split The Cultural Revolution Normalization of relations with the United States Deng Xiaoping The Four Modernizations One Child Policy **Tiananmen Square Massacre** Xi Jinping and China today